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Oh the memories this all brings back. Wonderful comparison, always had my suspicions about these two but could never fully make sense of the similarities so clearly. Why I never got around to picking up a Master System back in those days is beyond me.
Wonderboy is one of the first video games I ever played, it was on Master System, so it has a special place in my heart. The first game is awesome, but 2 is really great.
You are officially my new hero. I owned both a nes and a master system when I was growing up and always wanted to make and episode about this but it seems you have done a hell of a job. Great video and I totally agree with you.
Wonder Boy 3: The Dragons Trap is often considered one of the best games of the 8-Bit era. It is one of my favourite games ever from all eras. The game is a masterpiece.
Its worth mentioning that the sequels on the SMS are some of the best games on the system, especially Wonder Boy 3. That game goes on forever and is flat out amazing.
Always loved Adventure Island, as a kid i played AI 2 A LOT!!! Rented it every week! The first one truly is one of the most hard games on the NES, i beated it a few years ago and the last levels are hell in earth! I remember spending an entire day to beat the game non-stop!
Ive always wondered about both games for years and wasnt sure why they were so similar. Im glad to know that Wonder Boy is more true to the arcade version cause I was a Sega owner back then.
I personally like wonder boy better. I like how the music is more cheerful sounding and i like how when you find the letters S,E, G, A it plays the Sega jingle.
@AceEbb77 This arrangement was a fairly common one at the time actually and was often used by developers to get around Nintendo's draconian "you're only allowed to develop games for our system" publishing prerequisite. This just happens to be the most famous occurance, but Sega actually also did this for the sequel "Wonderboy In Monster Land" which was ported to the Neo-Geo and various other systems simply under the title "Monster land" or an alternate title.
Very informative. I was already aware that Adventure Island came from the first Wonder boy game, but this touched on facts I have yet to know. It also looks like Wonder Boy's graphics were a bit more detailed than Adventure Island's. I have played and own Adventure Island and have yet to try Wonder Boy.
One other thing is that Wonder Boy and Adventure Island had Next-Gen installments, The Genesis had Wonder Boy in Monster World, which had a blue-haired hero named Shion traveling through a different Monster World, while the game retains references to past Wonder Boy Games. SNES had SUPER Adventure Island 1 and 2, which are different games that starred Master Higgins. The first one plays like the NES games, and the second one is similar to Wonder Boy, where he wears armor. GEH?
At first I thought it's a 8 years old kid talking but after seeing you at the end- I now know it's a 13 years old girl >xD hh jk, anyway, great job with the comparison and historical review! :) I was only familiar, back at that time, with Adventure Island for the NES (which I thought was really fun! specially II+III since they've added those Dinosaurs rides which was so much cool and fun!), but after growing up I saw that there's this game which looks incredibly similar to the NES game I used to play but I never actually gave it that much of attention, until now, after the release of "Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap", which pushed me to finally understand where is this game is coming from! So thanks for this great detailed video!
The Wonder Boy series just far outshines the entire Adventure Island series as a whole. My favorite of the Adventure Island game is actually number IV that was never released here and actually took a more open RPG format like the Wonder Boy series.
Holy ballz. My mind = blown at how many views/comments you are getting!! SO freakin' awesome guys! And you deserve it! ~thumbs up~ This was a good vid. You guys are getting even better at adding in little visual effects to the vids, lie word bubbles and stuff. It's good stuff. I feel like this would've been more interesting for me if I had played either of these games at some point...but I never have. Kind of cool to learn about them, regardless.
Hey Rinry, I think your videos are fantastic. Your reviews are in-depth and very insightful. I like your style, it kind of reminds me of Little Miss Gamer. :)
Actually, Super Adventure Island 2 for snes is just like the remaining Wonder Boy game. You get armour, weapons and everything. It's one big game. Even Adventure Island 4 for NES has a slight RPG element to it too, with one big map.
Wonder Boy was my favorite game (and series for that matter) on the SMS when I was a kid. I was aware of Adventure Island, but never really had the chance to play it. Needless to say, the SMS version definitely looks MUCH better.
Oh my God, I had this game on the Sega Game Gear, I just remembered it when I saw this. I lost the game when I was four years old. I looooooooved this game, I miss it so! D: (Boo! Hoo!)
Ha ha I remember having this game. I used to take my master system to mexico as a kid because I would get bored. I got all my cousins hooked on wonder boy, but I was the only one to beat it. I later played Adventure Island but I liked the graphics and music from the sms more and that kept me from getting into the nes version. I ended up leaving my sms in mexico with my cousins. I'm going next month to mexico for a wedding. I gonna see if I can bring it back home.
Wonder Boy obviously so much fun While the basis of the game is so similar,I honestly enjoyed the SMS version more.It was more forgiving,was more pleasant to look at,and I didn't find the control issues to overcome any of this.If I could only somehow graft on the NES music,it would have been perfect.The SMS extended graphic capabilities really shine The major changes are that the NES version contains hidden eggs,bigger variety of items and an extra powerup.The SMS version contains more stages
I really never played the Wonder Boy series but Im a long time fan of Adventure Island. I knew of the um... "split timelines" of the games but seeing wonder boy so vastly different just shocks me. I do like AI2 and AI3. AI3 is overall really damn good. Super Adventure Island is also awesome for its updated graphics and music.
wonder boy is the one i grew up playing in the arcades and has the whole series collection. I even imported the wonder boy collection for the ps2 sega ages vol29
hahaha yes! Bubbles!!! That was a funny comparison. Got to say to you two, great job on the videos! My favorite is Wonderboy as well, though Adventure Island 2 was really fun. Juuuulllliaaaaannnn!!!!
You can see a few examples in the video above- the springs and just 'barely' hitting the correct spring, only to land on the rock and die would be one of thpse ones.
I remember playing Wonder Boy on an NES clone. That's weird but I am fairly certain. It was a pirated multicart, of course, maybe it was Adventure Island with the Wonder boy sprite?
Yea... I couldn't get into Adventure Island, but I love Adventure Island 2. I have played Wonder Boy in Monster Land, but only for a little bit, although it does seem to be a very awesome game.
Fun Fact: I once had a Sega Game Gear version. It was based on the Sega Master System (from what I can tell) and was called "Revenge of Drancon." Sounds like a sequel, but the first few levels are nigh identical to the Master Version (Never got far in the master version.) Might be worth checking out if you like the game.
My sisters actually like Adventure Island more. I'm pretty much the only guy in the family that actually played Wonder Boy. I actually played the Genesis game, though, which is graphically great, in its own right.
@D3stinySm4sher thats because she posted it to digg, et al, and has a pretty voice. What i'm surprised about is that she didn't talk about Master Higgins origins: in japan, its "Famous Takahashi," and was one of the first game-celebrities, famed for his ability to hit buttons 16 times per second. Master Higgins supposedly vaguely resembles Takahashi.
You should also check out the brazilian versions of the two WB sequels, for the SMS. They altered the games to include famous comic's characters here in Brazil, from "Turma da Mônica" comics. I still have the version of WB III, called "Turma da Mônica em o Resgate". That was one of the best SMS games, in my opinion.
